Detailed guidelines in successful sales proposals and techniques emphasize self-confidence, ethical use of influence, and the tested methods of the nation's leading salespeople.[...]
A revised edition of the American Book Award-nominated chronicle of U.S. history is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from 1492 through the current war on terrorism.[...]
A revised edition of the American Book Award-nominated chronicle of U.S. history is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from 1492 through the current war on terrorism. Read by Matt Damon; preface and afterword read by Howard Zinn.[...]
Draws on more than one thousand studies from a variety of sources to demystify the sometimes contradictory health maintenance practices recommended by today's experts, listing one hundred proven findings on how to promote personal health, in a guide provided in layperson language. Original. 75,000 f[...]
A fifth and final collection of previously unpublished works of poetry by the influential twentieth-century American writer includes pieces that present sensory-based observations about real and imaginary landscapes. By the author of Ham on Rye and Post Office. 30,000 first printing.[...]
A fifth and final collection of poetic works by the influential late author of Factotum and Ham on Rye features hard-hitting pieces that reflect his observations about everyday objects and offer insight into his use of unpolished language. Original.[...]
Celebrates the history of America in the words of famous and not-so-famous Americans, including selections by Christopher Columbus, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, a Lowell Mill worker, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and a Gulf War resister, interspersed with commentary by the author. Origina[...]
Sonya Hamlin, arguably America's leading communication expert, shows us how to successfully capture people's attention so that they listen, understand, and are persuaded by your message, especially in the plugged-in, fast-paced, visually-driven atmosphere that is today's workplace. Whether making a [...]
A humorous celebration of cat lovers and their devotion to their feline companions traces the authors' own experiences as cat aficionados and shares the stories of such noteworthy enthusiasts as a woman who brought her cat with her to dine in some of New York's finest French restaurants and a family[...]
Amarillo Slim Preston has won $300,000 from Willie Neslon playing dominoes and $2 million from Larry Flynt playing poker. He has shuffled, dealt, and bluffed with some of twentieth-century's most famous figures. He beat Minnesota Fats at pool with a broom, Bobby Riggs at table tennis with a skillet,[...]
An insider's report on how professionals read and write instructs aspiring writers on the methods employed by such literary figures as Kafka, Austen, and Dickens, in a resource that draws on key examples to demonstrate the essentials of good plot and character development. 30,000 first printing.[...]
The only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of--and in the words of--America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. Zinn shows that many of our country's greatest battles were carried out at the grassroots level, ag[...]
That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride [...]
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks ha[...]
The author of Dark Side of the Light Chasers and Spiritual Divorce identifies the forces that cause people to commit acts of self-sabotage and self-destruction, in a guide that counsels readers on how to make choices in accordance with true goals and values.[...]
We've all heard the stories - some of them show up on the evening news and as headlines on the weekly tabloids, these public demonstrations of good people going astray dominate the media, but countless other examples take place, unbeknownst to us, in our own backyards. Birthed out of fear and shame,[...]
"At a time when slick, superficial, psychological works are foisted on the lay-public, Allen Wheelis has written a serious treatise."--San Francisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle[...]
This directed and practical book shows how to stop being manipulated by others and start taking charge of your own life.[...]
The authors of the bestseller Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda recommend realistic ways for readers to obtain greater control of their lives, work, and personal relationships.[...]
"If you really loved me..." "After all I've done for you..." "How can you be so selfish..." Do any of the above sound familiar? They're all examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional bl[...]
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reint[...]
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate [...]
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.Whether talking a[...]
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country takes the millions of fans of the Little House books and the hit TV series on an enchanting tour of the real world of the well-loved author, visiting the people and places who inspired her classic books. With hundreds of photos, many in full color, this memorabilia book [...]
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book writte[...]